Obligatory XKCD Horse Battery Stapler reference. https://xkcd.com/936/ https://xkcd.com/936/ MS AD and many others certainly did a lot to prevent this sane pa

Obligatory XKCD Horse Battery Stapler reference. https://xkcd.com/936/ https://xkcd.com/936/ MS AD and many others certainly did a lot to prevent this sane password future. - arbitrary and low max password lengths - weak unsalted hashes - mandatory short rotation (never mind your passphrase has 50 bits of entropy and cracking it from hash with state of the art would still take years) - banning whitespace - requiring symbols and numbers and capital letters - instead of estimating entropy